Organization:Code Club
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| Founded | 2012 |
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Area served | United Kingdom |
| Website | codeclub |
Code Club is a voluntary initiative, founded in 2012. The initiative aims to provide opportunities for children aged 9 to 13 to develop coding skills through free after-school clubs. As of November 2015, over 3,800 schools and other public venues established a Code Club, regularly attended by an estimated 44,000 young people across the UK.[1] The organization also expanded internationally, and there are now over 13,000 Code Club operating worldwide.[2] Volunteer programmers and software developers give their time to run Code Club sessions, passing on their programming skills and mentoring the young students.[3][4] Children create their own computer games, animations and websites, learning how to use technology creatively.[5]
It has Scratch, HTML & CSS, Python and a variety of other coding languages. The initiative also provide free BBC Micro:bits to children above the age of 9.
History
Code Club is the brain child of Clare Sutcliffe[6] and Linda Sandvik,[7][8]
we share a belief that it is essential that children are introduced to coding at an early age and shown how much fun it can be.[9]
A viral video featuring Prince Andrew, Martha Lane Fox, Chad Hurley, Niklas Zennström, Brent Hoberman and Tim Berners-Lee was released to promote awareness of the project.[10]
On 3 November 2015, it was announced that Code Club had become "a wholly owned subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation."[11][12] On 16 March 2018, Clare Sutcliffe, then executive director at Raspberry Pi, announced leaving both Code Club and Raspberry Pi.
Technologies
The curriculum teaches children Scratch, HTML & CSS and Python. Students and teachers use the Trinket web browser application to write code.
References
- ↑ "Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Code Club (Wired UK)". Wired UK. https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-11/03/raspberry-pi-buys-code-club. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
- ↑ "Code Club World – A worldwide network of coding clubs for children". https://www.codeclubworld.org/.
- ↑ Robert Bisland (2013). "A day in the life of a Code Club volunteer". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere). http://blog.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/index.php/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-code-club-volunteer/.
- ↑ Angela Davis (2013). "The region's techies help to influence a 'program' for change in the classroom". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere). http://blog.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/index.php/the-regions-techies-help-to-influence-a-program-for-change-in-the-classroom/.
- ↑ Guy Mucklow (2013). "Kindergarten Code". Sponsor's Blog (Postcode Anywhere). http://blog.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/index.php/kindergarten-code/.
- ↑ The Guardian (30 December 2015). "New Year honours 2016: the full list". The Quardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/30/new-years-honours-2016-the-full-list. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ↑ "The Founders Forum continues to generate innovative discussion". Wired (Conde Nast). https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/25/david-rowan-founders-forum. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ↑ "Afterschool 'Code Clubs' planned to teach kids programming". Wired (Conde Nast). https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/17/code-club. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ↑ "Code Club About". Code Club. http://www.codeclub.org.uk/#about.
- ↑ "Code and a have a go if you think you're good enough". Daily Mirror (Trinity Mirror). https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/video-code-club-kids-grill-906191.
- ↑ "Putting a Code Club in every community - Raspberry Pi" (in en-GB). 3 November 2015. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/putting-a-code-club-in-every-community/.
- ↑ Cellan-Jones, Rory (2019-06-24). "The Raspberry Pi goes Fourth" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48747647.
External links
- Code Club project page
- Code Club Interview on YouTube
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